You can feed it to wolves to tame them witout hurting them. That's the only use I've found for it.

Rotted flesh is great for eating!

The only debuff it gives you is "Hunger". That means that for 30 seconds, your food level will slowly decrease. But it doesn't stack.

So, if my hunger bar is nearly depleted (which it often is, because I only eat when I need to), then I use rotted meat to go up to full. Over the next thirty seconds, I lose 1.5 food levels, but generally have gained 2-3 hearts during the time where I was full. Sometimes at this point, I will then eat one loaf of bread to top myself off again, after the "hunger" debuff is gone.

So, it's not as good as other forms of food, but it's generally free, so it's what I eat first.

You can feed it to wolves to tame them witout hurting them. That's the only use I've found for it.

Rotted flesh is great for eating!

The only debuff it gives you is "Hunger". That means that for 30 seconds, your food level will slowly decrease. But it doesn't stack.

So, if my hunger bar is nearly depleted (which it often is, because I only eat when I need to), then I use rotted meat to go up to full. Over the next thirty seconds, I lose 1.5 food levels, but generally have gained 2-3 hearts during the time where I was full. Sometimes at this point, I will then eat one loaf of bread to top myself off again, after the "hunger" debuff is gone.

So, it's not as good as other forms of food, but it's generally free, so it's what I eat first.

If you eat another zombie steak when you lose that first 1/2 lambchop, you'll actually be filled up to 12, so the 30 seconds of hunger brings you back down to 10.5 and now you dont have to top up with a bread.

Shit. Anyone have a minecon ticket they're not going to be able to use? I had to wait till payday to get them and they sold out last night before I could get one. Already have may lane tickets which I don't want to waste.

I see there's a few new achievements. Never did get that 50m skellie kill even though I've killed them at at least that distance with a pillar.New version, new map for me. I'm thinking of a mulit-level base inside a ravine.

I'm not sure that sniper achievement is working. I've set up a mark 50 blocks away, lined up the shot, gave myself a 5 block buffer, and still didn't get the achievement. It's not even that hard because mobs are dumb and won't aggro unless you get in range, even if you're shooting them.

Interesting zombie farm, dwpenny. Not sure if I missed something or if the drop killed some of them.

It's my mine you ran into, but don't worry about encroaching on my land or whatever, do what you want down there. The slime area... are you wanting to build a slime farm? Feel free to do so there, but in town I marked out a place that has 3 slime chunks in a 4 block row. I was going to build one there but while mining I got a lifetime of slime balls anyways. If you want to build one though, let me know and I can help.

Small venture update. I've been in London and a bit busy hanging out with my folks, so not a lot of playtime involved.

Finished raising the central tower to an elevation of 100m. Made single block wide bridges between central tower and tower 1, and tower 1 and tower 2. I have enough cobble to construct the third ring tower, probably on the western side of the island. Then its back into the deep mine, gathering more cobble, slime balls, and various ores. As an aside, I'm not sure if I built my enchanting table correctly. It is only showing enchants up to level 5, and I have about 20 bookshelves in close proximity to it.. may make a run back to town to observe the 50 level table there and make adjustments accordingly.

As an aside, I'm not sure if I built my enchanting table correctly. It is only showing enchants up to level 5, and I have about 20 bookshelves in close proximity to it.. may make a run back to town to observe the 50 level table there and make adjustments accordingly.

There's something wrong in that case.

The bookshelves should be only 1 meter away, either the same level as the enchanting table or one above it. Diagonals count as one meter. This means there's a maximum of 32 of them, but it only uses up to 30.

Obviously using the maximum of 32 means there's no way to walk in, unless you use a ladder like I did. You can go with 30, and leave a door space of 2 though.

Make sure there is nothing between them and the enchanting table, as well. Not even torches, signs, etc. They block the effects of the bookshelf they're in front of.

Is searching for stronholds by dropping Eyes of Ender broken right now? I'm trying it on my own server and the location it's pointing to has no stronghold. In fact, it's a pre-1.9 area. I would've expected it to lead me to a new chunk.

Is searching for stronholds by dropping Eyes of Ender broken right now? I'm trying it on my own server and the location it's pointing to has no stronghold. In fact, it's a pre-1.9 area. I would've expected it to lead me to a new chunk.

Well, I think that it only points to the places that the strongholds are supposed to spawn. If you generated that area before upgrading to the 1.9 pre-releases, then it's too late for the stronghold to spawn now.

Also, if the stronghold spawn locations are in ocean biomes, then it just gives up. It doesn't try again someplace else. That's why the maximum number of strongholds is 3, and there are often less than that. If you load a seed like "HARDCORE", which is pretty much all ocean, then all three strongholds don't spawn.

If the biome really should be at the location that you think, you can confirm it with that tool. Then, load up the world in mcEdit, and delete those chunks. Hopefully it will spawn when they are regenerated.

So I have to ask the stupid question...I started a thread earlier in the month asking who was going to Minecon, and the general sentiment was that no one was going to bother buying tickets and no one cared.

So I have to ask the stupid question...I started a thread earlier in the month asking who was going to Minecon, and the general sentiment was that no one was going to bother buying tickets and no one cared.

Now they're sold out.

Did anyone else on the forum get a ticket?

Not me. The only reason I'd go is if they had a dunk tank with Notch in it.

It's pretty likely that they were always going to "sell out" of the tickets, either from intentionally lowballing the availability or from manipulating the availability once they saw how tickets were selling.

Down for me too. I've been having really flaky service from comcast over the weekend, so I thought it was just me. I'm glad to know it's not.

shakennot_stirred wrote:

So I have to ask the stupid question...I started a thread earlier in the month asking who was going to Minecon, and the general sentiment was that no one was going to bother buying tickets and no one cared.

Now they're sold out.

Did anyone else on the forum get a ticket?

Still not interested in going. Taking off work, and flying out to LV is obviously the expensive part. If I had wanted to go, I would have bought the ticket months ago.

* Minecraft.net will go down the instant Notch sets foot on the plane* 100% of Mojang will also get on the plane, leaving no one to fix minecraft.net* Minecraft.net will remain down throughout the entire launch event

* Minecraft.net will go down the instant Notch sets foot on the plane* 100% of Mojang will also get on the plane, leaving no one to fix minecraft.net* Minecraft.net will remain down throughout the entire launch event

* Minecraft.net will go down the instant Notch sets foot on the plane* 100% of Mojang will also get on the plane, leaving no one to fix minecraft.net* Minecraft.net will remain down throughout the entire launch event

You forgot the part where they won't be able to complete the launch as they won't be able to connect to Minecraft.net.

Don't be so pessimistic. They've learned from the past, they'll leave a guy behind to take care of the servers...after he gets back from his all night bender.

Really though, Notch needs to make it so that SMP servers can cache credentials so they only need to do the callback to Mojang the first time someone connects. Making the local client cache the credential check (and only using Mojang's servers to connect to new SMP servers after you have authenticated once) wouldn't hurt either. It's not like crackers don't immediately patch out the check anyway, so it's not really buying them anything.

Sorry, guys. I was out of pocket this weekend due to Halloween shenanigans. ArsVenture is back up. It was running, but there were some weird errors in the console. I'm looking through them for anything interesting. I think it's time to start up the automatic restart cron job again, because this version is not stable enough yet.

Also, if you type my full username in IRC instead of just "g", it alerts me that people have been talking to me. I guess I'll just add "g" and "G" as well, because my username is so long, lol. I've also added "lag" and "restart" to my alerts.

Also, if you email golgar at lonelysphere dot com, it will get to my phone. Or, hit me up on skype. Username is golgarthemighty. I'll also give a few people a number to text me if you reeeeally wanna.

At present on 1.8.1 only 3 strongholds will ever get generated. Supposedly the full release (maybe even 1.9???) will remove this restraint. If a map created in 1.8.1 gets used on these later versions do we know if more strongholds can be produced in as yet unrendered chunks?

So are the "pre-releases" just the new beta releases now? I decided to forego downloading the pre-release versions, and as such, am still on 1.8.x. But I keep reading about how more and more features/bug fixes are happening on the 1.9.x pre-release, and I have to wonder if Notch just decided to say "fuck it" to pushing out official beta releases at this point.